It was a tough day at the office for the Manhattan High girls golf team on Monday at the 6A state meet. The Indians came in 7th place with a team score of 410 at Shadow Glen golf club in Olathe. Blue Valley North won state for the third year in a row with a 349, Garden City finished second with a 370, and Shawnee Mission East was third with a 379. MHS senior Jenna Crusinberry placed 14th as she turned in a score of 94. The Tribe will return four of their top six golfers for next season, as…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Attorneys for the Kansas man accused of killing a 14-year-old Great Bend girl have asked the court to bar the teen’s family from showing emotion in the courtroom during his trial. The motion filed last week in the capital murder case of Adam Longoria also asks Judge Hannelore Kitts to keep the girl’s family and friends from sitting directly before the jury. The 37-year-old Great Bend man is charged with capital murder in the death of Alicia DeBolt, whose charred body was found at the asphalt plant where Longoria worked in August 2010. Alicia had disappeared days…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) This year’s flooding on the Missouri River is officially over. That’s according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which says Monday the river has fallen below flood stages from Fort Peck in Montana to St. Louis and water is off the levee system. Col. Anthony Hofmann, commander of the Kansas City district, says the corps is assessing the damage to the levees and dams to come up with a repair bill. He expects a report by mid-November. So far, $27.7 million has been set aside for repairs. The corps is waiting on funding by Congress for…
MEDICINE LODGE, Kan. (AP) A central Missouri man has been killed in an accident involving a deer on a southern Kansas highway. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the man was driving west on U.S. 160 shortly after 5 a.m. Monday when his car struck the deer in the roadway. The car hit a guardrail and rolled down an embankment. The driver was identified as 19-year-old Cephas Yoder of Boonville, Mo. The Highway Patrol says Yoder was thrown from his car. The accident happened west of Medicine Lodge, about 20 miles north of the Oklahoma line.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The mother of a missing Missouri baby may not be casting herself in the best light by telling national media that she drank heavily the night her daughter disappeared. But her attorney says such honesty shows that Deborah Bradley has “nothing to hide.” Bradley told television audiences Monday that she may have blacked out in the hours before she and Jeremy Irwin reported that their 10-month-old daughter Lisa was missing from their Kansas City home early Oct. 4. Bradley also now says she last saw her daughter hours earlier than she originally told police. The couple’s…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A new government report says Kansas farmers have now seeded 84 percent of their 2012 winter wheat crop. Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that the pace of wheat planting is about the same as last year. About 56 percent of the wheat has now emerged. The agency also says the harvest of fall crops was slowed last week by much needed-rainfall. The corn harvest was about 75 percent complete as of Sunday. About 59 percent of the state’s soybeans have been cut, along with 25 percent of the sorghum. Winter feeding season is approaching, and the…
STERLING, Kan. (AP) A central Kansas woman who organized a college homecoming parade is hospitalized after being hit by mules apparently spooked by a train horn. Sterling Police Chief Ed Truelove told The Hutchinson News the injured woman, Millie Casey, has been involved for years as a volunteer in various parades. Casey organized the Sterling College homecoming parade on Saturday. Truelove says police had stopped traffic for the parade as it wound from the campus through downtown Sterling. When a passing train sounded its horn, the chief says, the startled mules darted into Casey. She was taken to a hospital…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Department of Commerce has been awarded a four-year, $5 million grant to help train more engineers for the workforce. The funds are from the U.S. Department of Labor. State Commerce Secretary Pat George says the grant fits with a program approved this year by Kansas lawmakers aimed at graduating more engineering students from state universities. George says the federal grant is intended to reduce the number of foreign workers hired in the United States. It will be funded from the fees paid by employers who hire foreign workers under a federal visa program. Kansas employers…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Federal prosecutors will decide whether a 54-black man who was doused with rubbing alcohol and set on fire by white intruders is the victim of a hate crime. A 23-year-old former Council Grove man was arrested Sunday in connection with the Oct. 7 attack on 54-year-old Sterling Law in Law’s Council Grove home. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/r3DcM7) reports Law sat in his home for four days after the attack without getting medical treatment for burns. His employer of more than 30 years went to check on him after Law called in sick, and found him in pain.…